Happy 60th radio caroline

[erimus74]

Some nice bits of footage & memorabilia on the news, heard of the radio station growing up but cant remember if I listened to it or not, I know my older sisters, 4 years older than me did

On another note can posters remember radio Luxembourg, now I do remember listening to that station

[Smoggers51]

Erimus ,I listened to Radio Caroline a lot in my younger days,in fact I found at at a car boot sale a set of CDs called Radio Caroline Calling 70's flashback tracks.The booklet with it said that the Original MV Caroline was scrapped and Radio Caroline then transmitted on a ship called Mi Amigo.One of the DJs Bob Noakes wrote a book called The Last of the Pirates about his time on Radio Caroline.Its a very funny book and worth reading. Ps I listened to Luxembourg as well which was I thought more pop orientated than Caroline.

[Ural Quntz (Moderator)]

Still going strong - listen to it a lot

https://www.radiocaroline.co.uk/#home.html

Then what about......?

[Smoggers51]

Wow Ural didn't realise it was still broadcasting.Will give it a listen .Cheers Ural 👍

[Nosmo-King]

Is 270 the station that broadcast out of Scarborough waters? If so, my late mum used to love listening to a young Paul Burnett - " this is yours sincerely, Paul Burnett". Cheesy I know - but she loved it.

He like a lot of the pirate DJ's went on to National radio - him predominantly with Radio One

[Bud Wiser]

Obviously too young to remember the pirate stations but have always been fascinated by their concept, watching any documentary on them - even loving the spoof movie The Boat That Rocked!

Around 17/18 years ago Big L (The former Radio London) started re-broadcasting (legally) on 1395AM. Loved it. Sadly, it only stayed around for a couple of years before closing. Ironically, just a few weeks AFTER I'd shelled out for a good quality Eton radio with excellent AM reception! I guess the general public had largely fallen out of love with medium wave radio by then. Unbelieveably, it even drew criticism for having a playlist of more than 20,000 songs. What the fuck's wrong with that? After all we don't all want to listen to the likes of Smooth playing Dolly & Kenny singing Islands In The Stream every waking hour!

Thankfully, due to DAB radio choice doesn't have to be so repetetive, with Boom having the broadest playlist by far - even if it does play a bit too much from the 60s for my liking.

Give it a try: https://www.boomradiouk.com/

[Ural Quntz (Moderator)]

You can get Caroline and Caroline Flashback on Alexa

https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.itv.com%2Fwatch%2Fnews%2F60-years-on-how-pirate-station-radio-caroline-helped-define-a-musical-era%2Fvpv6jhv%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR2keRKhojUX9kPRqkv2JtOLsMzte2dSdXlCoNTbhoEu3fZO618qQLfQkTs_aem_AZo3Kv1YfZP1jE8kShYJe6yra0KHt5d4DwnnQTbXhWRw8c8a5avj9AYzhM71OP10Omu2O3H0LDJX3j5oUvdELPFk&h=AT1ZDI5zbTohQHZfu2L1pXBs8hs--oCDTdkPHZZC2oQTQWNhNvIITI1Oh1XNOMu-GT_u8Rnz5o6UGAdpwKvwH8XdOjUAmNftClZ9FA1Po2I2oC_3JuFjPm1nTcneTH2wSA&__tn__=H-R&c

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[Blott]

Obviously too young to remember the pirate stations but have always been fascinated by their concept, watching any documentary on them - even loving the spoof movie The Boat That Rocked!

Around 17/18 years ago Big L (The former Radio London) started re-broadcasting (legally) on 1395AM. Loved it. Sadly, it only stayed around for a couple of years before closing. Ironically, just a few weeks AFTER I'd shelled out for a good quality Eton radio with excellent AM reception! I guess the general public had largely fallen out of love with medium wave radio by then. Unbelieveably, it even drew criticism for having a playlist of more than 20,000 songs. What the fuck's wrong with that? After all we don't all want to listen to the likes of Smooth playing Dolly & Kenny singing Islands In The Stream every waking hour!

Thankfully, due to DAB radio choice doesn't have to be so repetetive, with Boom having the broadest playlist by far - even if it does play a bit too much from the 60s for my liking.

Give it a try: https://www.boomradiouk.com/

I am pretty sure that Smooth has less than 20 songs.

[Ural Quntz (Moderator)]

Is 270 the station that broadcast out of Scarborough waters? If so, my late mum used to love listening to a young Paul Burnett - " this is yours sincerely, Paul Burnett". Cheesy I know - but she loved it.

He like a lot of the pirate DJ's went on to National radio - him predominantly with Radio One

Sure was

https://www.radio270.net/

Fnished up in Whitby harbour waiting to be scrapped

[Ural Quntz (Moderator)]